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Ullman safeguards the Olympic flame
Swedish suspension boat seating expert, Ullman Dynamics, has played its own part in safety at the London 2012 Olympics.
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Successful sale of Norderwerft shipyard
Berthold Brinkmann, the receiver of the Sietas shipyard, has successfully sold the Norderwerft to the Lürssen Group following extensive discussion.
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Graduates glimpse seafarer’s rights issues
Seafarers’ Rights International has placed a number of high performing young graduates into this year’s short but intensive SRI Legal Internship Scheme.
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UNCLOS is still essential, says ICS
The number of significant oil spills had decreased from about 23 per year in the 1970s to just three per year during the past 10 years, while the volume of maritime trade had more than tripled during the same period.
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Equity capital wanted for ship finance
At present it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain equity capital from investors, and loan capital from banks for vessel finance, but though times are difficult there will also be winners.
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Marine Energy Park for Scotland
It was announced recently by the Department for Energy and Climate Change in the UK that Scotland’s Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters have been designated as Scotland’s first Marine Energy Park.
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New wave device creates ‘lift’
Tests are taking place at Texas A&M University on a wave power prototype which takes advantage of blades that, like modern aircraft or wind turbines, create lift rather than drag.
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25th SMM expands with Offshore Dialogue
The 25th Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology International Trade Fair Hamburg, better known as SMM, takes place at the Hamburg Fair site from 4 to 7 September.
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Call for material tech papers
A conference on recent and future material technologies used in the marine and offshore industry is being organised by RINA.
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P&O receives Marine Software
UK based company Marine Software LTD recently delivered the Marine Project Manager Software (MPJ) to P&O Maritime Services.
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Ferry death
A man has died after falling overboard from a Scottish ferry 30 miles off Fraserburgh in Scotland.
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Answering the stress of wind
ContiTech Vibration Control has developed an innovative generator bearing and an enhanced gearbox bearing for modern wind power stations.
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New Incat ferry for Rhode Island
Australian boatbuilder Incat Crowther has just delivered a new 34m Catamaran passenger ferry to Rhode Island in the US.
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Recaro Sun Marine seats riding high
Netherlands based Recaro Maritime is riding high on the success of the launch of the newly designed and tested range of Sun Marine passenger seats at Seawork 2012.
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New innovative water propelled RIB
Netherlands based Post Workboats has developed a unique Tornado RIB with water jet propulsion especially for the offshore and wind farm industry and patrol duties.
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OMC helps to make Pacific transit safer
Global safety expert, OMC International, has developed a new safety product, a ship motion measurement instrument called the iHeave, in response to challenging weather conditions faced during a study at the Columbia River Bar entrance to the Pacific.
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Olympic kudos for Redbay RIBs
The Port of London Authority’s (PLA) Redbay built Stormforce 850 RIB is performing gatekeeper duties on the Thames for the duration of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Maldives marine reserve
The whole of the Maldives will become the first country in the world to become a marine reserve in a move scheduled to happen by 2017.
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APEC’s 35th anniversary
APEC-Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Center is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. Former trainees from all over the world came to Antwerp recently to attend the celebration.
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NUTEP steps up
NUTEP, one of the leading container terminal operators in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, is to expand the capacity of its terminal there to accommodate on-going double-digit growth in the number of containers it is handling.